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pseudophilosophy

pseudophilosophy noun: fake or very bad philosophy.

Noun

pseudophilosophy (countable and uncountable, plural pseudophilosophies)

  1. (derogatory) Fake or very bad philosophy.
    • If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet provide posterity with an inexhaustible theme for laughter at our times, that it is a pseudophilosophy paralyzing all mental powers, stifling all real thinking, and, by the most...1965, E.F.J.Payne translating Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Basis of Morality
    Synonyms:
    philosophastry

Synonyms of pseudophilosophy

Forms of pseudophilosophy

pluralpseudophilosophies
alternative formpseudo-philosophy

Origin of pseudophilosophy

From pseudo- + philosophy.

Questions about pseudophilosophy

What does pseudophilosophy mean?
Pseudophilosophy means fake or very bad philosophy.
What part of speech is pseudophilosophy?
Pseudophilosophy is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudophilosophy?
The plural of pseudophilosophy is pseudophilosophies.

Words near pseudophilosophy in the dictionary

  1. pseudophilosopher
  2. pseudophilosophers
  3. pseudophilosophic
  4. pseudophilosophical
  5. pseudophilosophies
  6. pseudophilosophy
  7. pseudophobia
  8. pseudophobias
  9. pseudophobic
  10. pseudophone
  11. pseudophones

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